The richly colored green main border is both unusual and particularly
beautiful as it provides an excellent background for the generously positioned
designs placed upon it. They also appear in the main border of the previous
example. Here they are not only larger but terraced, whereas Plate Tenís have
the usual jagged or serrate-edge finish. This design is actually a göl known
as ashik and it frequently appears as a chuval minor göl and in the borders
of post-conquest weavings of the colonial period.

A similar terraced-style ornament also appears in the far
more complex
main border of a very well known archaic period multi-göl main carpet(fig.39).
Notice how they both share similar bracket-like designs between each of the
terraced ornaments, albeit the carpetís version being more intricate with
that rather thick and heavy vine-like meander with its associated hooked extensions.
Also the rarely encountered cross tertiary göls that appear in the field
of this chuval seem to be related to those, again more complex ones, found
in the terraced ornaments of the multi-göl carpet.

The chemche secondary göls and the entire appearance of this
chuval have the somewhat squashed and compressed appearance not usually associated
with the classic weaving period. However the chunky bold main göls, the wide
main border and tall partial chemches that appear closest to the top border
are able to offset this impression. These factors plus the inclusion of tertiary
elements support a classic period designation and imply it was produced by
a sub-group of the western Yomut. Brilliant and super-saturated dyes combined
with a deep surface patina suggest an archaic nomadic lifestyle. This was
not the norm for Yomut, or in fact the other Turkmen groups, during the classic
period and generally non-existent during subsequent weaving periods.